Festibility is a fandom festival accepting all kinds of fanworks (fic, meta, art, icons, podfic, vids, recs, picspams, drabble sets etc) about disabled characters. Works can focus on canonically disabled characters or canonically able-bodied characters that you reimagine as disabled. Pieces can be as long or short as you like. You can find out more at the Festibility announcement post on access_fandom!

Here’s how the prompts will work:

Prompts can be general or fandom- or character-specific. You can also choose to specify a type of disability. Be creative and have fun. Post prompts now through September 15th!

Fills can be posted starting Thursday, July 15th and the posting period goes until September 15th. We encourage you to post disability-centric fanworks to access_fandom after the close of the fest. After September 15th, please post to the community instead of commenting here, and link back to the prompt (if any) that inspired you.

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ETA: Please state one of the following on your work: "No warnings apply", "Choose Not to Warn" or include warnings/content notes mentioning any triggering material that does apply to your work. Marking your work in this way helps people with triggers to navigate the Festibility responses. Thank you! /ETA

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ETA: There have been some concerns raised about this language policy. For clarification, this language reminder is meant more for prompt suggestion than for actual fic. You are allowed to use whatever language you like in your fan fic. If there is a lot of ableist language in your fic, we would prefer that you warn for it in your fic headers. You are also welcome to address the negative as well as the positive aspects of living with a disability.

sick and tired of being sick and tired (glee, rachel, g)

Author's Note: I do not have fibro myself and so I've done my best from research. Any medical errors in this are entirely mine and I apologize wholeheartedly for them.

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RisingStar first big part! knew by the end of the audition that I'd nailed it. I'm going to be on #Broadway!five minutes ago via web

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Rachel Berry is going to be Wendla!32 people like this.View all 15 comments.Ryan Berry I'm so proud of my daughter!Mercedes Jones You go, girlKurt Hummel What happened to standards? :) lol jk Rachel good luck

Hey Glee Clubbers! Or former Glee kids, I guess I should say, and also Mr. Schuester. In case you missed it on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, LinkedIN, Livejournal, or phone, I wanted to give you all an opportunity to congratulate me on this fabulous new role! I'll also be taking any questions you have.

I've been really tired lately, but the doctor says that I'm fine. Must be stress due to my ~*~great new role~*~ (see my last six blogs for details). I'm putting my Myspace videos on a hiatus for a while so I can adjust to my new schedule. Don't worry, I won't be gone for too long. In the meantime (view more)

new message from "Noah" 5/2/16 9:09PMdo u want me to beat him up i will. quinn is dragging me 2 c ur show anyway

new message from "Noah" 5/2/16 9:11PMfuck that was supposed 2 b a surprise. dont tell her i said

new message from "Noah" 5/2/16 9:16PMr u sure? it would be easy in NY no1 would notice

new message from "Noah" 5/2/16 9:17PMm not drunk berry. im trying 2 b a good friend or somethin

new message from "Noah" 5/2/16 9:20PMfine, get some sleep, u even sound tired in txt. we'll see u next week

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Rachel Berry was tagged in the album New York 2016.4 people like this.Brittany Lopez You look like my favorite dead grandma.Santana Lopez I think that means you should see a doctor, and you'd better do it quick. My first time in New York isn't going to be for a stupid funeral.

Fibromyalgia OverviewWhat is fibromyalgia?Fibromyalgia is widespread pain in the muscles and soft tissues [...]

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new message from "Artie" 5/2/16 2:00AMdo you know what time it is here

new message from "Artie" 5/2/16 2:02AMI was but that's not the point

new message from "Artie" 5/2/16 2:06AMI can't diagnose you, I'm still a student. with an exam tomorrow. hint hint

new message from "Artie" 5/2/16 2:09AMseriously Rach see a real doctor. they don't bite I promise

new message from "Tina" 5/2/16 2:15AMif he fails tomorrow I'm blaming you even if you are sick

new message from "Tina" 5/2/16 2:18AMyour message got cut off, but I get the point, sry. T_T please see a dr Artie says webmd can burn in a fire

new message from "Tina" 5/2/16 2:20AMg'nite

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Re: Fanart: Vorkosigan series

Commentfic: The Uncertain Trumpet. (no warnings I can think of)

There is ragged wallpaper beneath his fingers. Scott slides his hand across it till his fingers bump an outcrop of smooth painted wood. Right. Windowsill. He gropes for the catch on the window, silently making yet another mental note to ask Kurt to give him a proper sitrep when he drops Scott off in random places. Kurt's pretty good about it in relation to the battle - right now, for instance, he knows Hank is fighting Toad and the Blob across a pile of rubble from him, Bobby and Rogue teaming up on Pyro on the west side of the street and Jean squaring off against Phantazia between them.

But no, Scott grumbles to himself as the window finally slides open, "Fourth floor, double-hung windows" is apparently too much to ask.

He orients himself towards the battle and sends a query Jean's way. The inhuman screeching from somewhere above indicates that Sauron has just arrived in his Pteranodon form (which Scott expected to happen at some point, or he'd be on the roof).

About time, Medusa, Jean sends with a mental smirk. What happened, Nightcrawler took you out for coffee?

He concentrates on picturing his right hand (a hand that feels twenty-three but looks sixteen, in his head, and will always look sixteen) and raises its middle finger.

She giggles (in his head, which is always slightly alarming). Wanna burn holes in this bitch's ass?

Just point and shoot, O Fearless Leader.

Muscles he didn't even know were tense relax in his neck as the familiar tendrils of Jean's power sink into him, feeling his location. Jean, who stood by him when Logan wanted him off the team. Who was the first one to convince him to open his eyes. Who is still the only one he really trusts to make sure anything he incinerates is evil or inanimate. God, he wishes he knew what she looks like.

Gotcha, she says, turning his head down and a few degrees to the right. I'm holding her off for now, we need to rescue Hank. Fire in three!

Scott smiles as he starts counting off - her command voice has improved drastically. She was never comfortable leading the X-Men in the field at such a young age, and he hadn't helped at the start, constantly second-guessing her strategy - it was so frustrating, having the instinct and the confidence of a born leader but being unable to fulfill his potential. He couldn't make split-second decisions when he relied so heavily on an oral report or, at best, a telepathic infodump from Jean or the Professor. And on top of that, guilt and fear, constant fear of killing someone just by looking at them. He'd taken it out on her. He'd taken it out on everyone. He wasn't proud of it.

Still, they worked through it. He eventually settled into "strategic advisor and artillery" with some form of dignity intact. There is still that rising terror when his eyelids quiver, but he tells himself, Jean's got me. And Jean's got him.

Re: Commentfic: The Uncertain Trumpet. (no warnings I can think of)

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Star Wars, Prequel-verse. Yoda, post Attack of the Clones fight with Dooku. Dealing with the aftermath of using the Force to fight Dooku with his physical disabilties--there is always a heavy price to pay.

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Star Wars, Clone Wars era. Republic Commando book series. Some sort of interaction between Corr (the trooper who lost both hands) and Anakin, regarding the disparity between the medical care and prosthetics available to the Jedi vs. the Clone Troopers.

Fancomic: Learning to fly (has a transcript)

It's probably not the 15th where you live but it is here, and I'm worried I'll forget :)

Title: Learning to flyAuthor:sqbrFandom: Avatar the Last AirbenderRating: GCharacters: Teo, The Mechanist, Toph Bei FongContent Note(s): NoneSummary: Teo, learning to fly. A single panel comic, has a transcript.

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Star Wars, Republic Commando book series. Something to do with Fi's brain injury--maybe what would have happened if Jusik couldn't help his healing along as much as he did, or how injuries are treated in Mandalorian society, or exploriing Fi's thoughts on the MS (brain injury) sigil on his helmet. The books spend a lot of time on his recovery, but I find I want to know more.

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Star Wars, Republic Commando book series. What if Darman brought Niner with him to Mandalore, rather than staying behind with him to be picked up by the GAR? How would Niner deal with his spinal injury on Mandalore?

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Assuming that's a "my" stuttering, I offer you a stutterer-to-stutterer (or PWS but I can't manage to get that fussed about the language) fistbump! *\o/* There is a reason I'm requesting this, although because I'm not covert it's not as id-tastic as it could be!

Anyway, I hope the information helps! I can also link you to a few stuttering blogs I know of, although I should add that I tend to be a bit radical when it comes to stuttering acceptance and anything I link is probably going to reflect that.

The gravel of the parking lot of Ben's soccer field isn't all that stable. Dean's weight lands wrong; he goes down hard, taking the skin off both palms and a knee.

Glasses are slippery when they're soapy and wet. Dean drops one and fishes all the shards out of the sink, then washes the blood off his hands. The water stings.

Dean holds a nail in place to drive it into the skeleton of a McMansion and swings the hammer. He misses; the finger's not broken but it's a near thing.

Dean overhears a remark in a bar and strolls over to the speaker and his buddies. "My brother is, as you so politely put it, a cocksucker," Dean informs him. It might not be literally true, Sam didn't go into details about what happened when Brady got stoned while Sam was around, but it doesn't much matter. "In related news, my brother's dead." Then he slams his fist into the jackass's face. Three of the jackasses end up in the hospital and Dean refuses treatment.

Dean was chopping veggies for dinner—got to contribute to Lisa's household somehow—and got distracted remembering Sam chattering about the nutritive properties of zucchini, one of the few times when Sam was a kid that they could afford fresh food to cook and a kitchen to cook it in. There was a bright sharp pain at his fingertip and he was home, the blood and the emptiness as familiar as his own skin, Sam's absence proof that Sam was safe on earth or above it. Lisa made noise, distracting him, but he'd needed the reminder. Hunting on his own would be another way to say suicide and he'd promised Sam he wouldn't, but thirty years with pain and without Sam, he'd done that. He could do that.

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Stargate Atlantis: Rodney McKay. After "Shrine", Rodney turns out to have some permanent brain damage causing cognitive impairment -- difficulty concentrating, memory loss, emotional issues. He's still just as brilliant as he ever was, and can still do his job, but he and everyone around him have to adjust to the "new" him (while fighting aliens, or whatnot *g*).